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Interesting read from Matt Miesnieks on the current hardware limitations of AR, what the future holds for the technology, and a well informed estimate of when AR technology will be available in wearables. 😎

Around the Web

We've been exploring gray box testing solutions with React Native the past few weeks and Detox from Wix is what we're going to be experimenting with moving forward. This great writeup from Louis Lainé is a good starting point for any developers interested in implementing automated UI tests in their apps!

More and more we're using functional programming in our apps and using frameworks like RxJS for reactive extensions. This article from Ben Lesh is a great explainer of Observables and teaches you about them by building one. 🚀

Performance

Nice writeup from Aaron Chiu on how Facebook's Marketplace team reduced their time to interaction on low-end Android devices by half. Should see some of these improvements upstream but otherwise some good tips on improving the start times in our apps!

GraphQL

Deep dive into creating a custom GraphQL client using Apollo Links from Evans Hauser. This one is still a bit over our head but we'll be getting our hands dirty with Links soon. Looks like a great solution to provide custom functionality to our GraphQL clients. 💪🏻